L’Entree
Lisa Jamhoury
Amid the global migration between physical and virtual worlds, L'Entrée (The Opening) delves into the desire to capture, understand, and keep unchanged the vital human body. An augmented reality (AR) experience, L’Entrée reveals virtual sculptures situated in pedestrianized areas humming with human movement.
The sculptures, created in a gaming engine with photogrammetry, motion capture, and computational averaging, each perform a virtual “dance” immersing viewers in their unique forms. The experience pulls viewers between tangible city streets and the intangible world of XR technology, ultimately begging the question: what is the purpose of the human body in an increasingly virtual existence?
Credits
Created by
Lisa Jamhoury
Choreography, performance
Hybrid Movement Company
Françoise Voranger, Andrea Nikki Ortiz
Sound and music
Matt McCorkle
Voice
Emily Reilly
Supporters
NEW INC / New Museum, Onassis ONX
L’Entrée (The Opening) has been commissioned by the AHRC-funded GLoW3 project led by Professor Sarah Atkinson from King’s College London’s Department of Culture, Media & Creative Industries, Faculty of Arts & Humanities and is supported by King’s Culture.
Lisa Jamhoury
Lisa Jamhoury is a Lebanese-American movement artist and programmer creating embodied, computational experiences. Rooted in contemporary circus and mindfulness, her practice includes interactive performances, installations, and websites that encourage a consensual, celebratory approach to humanity’s shared physicality. Lisa is a member at Onassis ONX and NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator for art, design and technology. She teaches at New York University’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where she completed her masters degree. Earlier in her career, Lisa worked at Adobe as a senior designer for machine intelligence, where she integrated AI/ML into creative tools and workflows.
